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Definition of trahison des clercs in English: trahison des clercsnoun ˌtrɑːɪzɒ̃ deɪ ˈklɛːtʀaizɔ̃ de klɛʀträˌēˌzôn dā ˈklārtrāˌzän dā ˈklərk literary A betrayal of intellectual, artistic, or moral standards by writers, academics, or artists. 〈诗/文〉知识分子的背叛(作家、学者或艺术家对知识、艺术或道德标准的背叛) Example sentencesExamples - The worst betrayal of society has been the trahison des clercs - the decline of writing and the arts into a squalid celebration of all the most cloacal elements of human existence.
- There has certainly been a trahison des clercs.
- Yet, amid all the sound and fury, the most contemptible phenomenon is the trahison des clercs.
- She is, after all, writing about intellectuals and accusing them of a trahison des clercs, but her mode of analysis could apply just as easily to carpenters or accountants as to writers and artists.
- Despite the outcry from teachers now, there has been a trahison des clercs.
- Half the contributors to this book are British or British colonials, and all of them have the same grim story to tell - the story, in a nutshell, of le trahison des clercs.
Synonyms disloyalty, treachery, perfidy, perfidiousness, bad faith, faithlessness, falseness
OriginFrench, literally 'treason of the scholars', the title of a book by Julien Benda (1927). Definition of trahison des clercs in US English: trahison des clercsnounträˌēˌzôn dā ˈklārtrāˌzän dā ˈklərk literary A betrayal of intellectual, artistic, or moral standards by writers, academics, or artists. 〈诗/文〉知识分子的背叛(作家、学者或艺术家对知识、艺术或道德标准的背叛) Example sentencesExamples - She is, after all, writing about intellectuals and accusing them of a trahison des clercs, but her mode of analysis could apply just as easily to carpenters or accountants as to writers and artists.
- The worst betrayal of society has been the trahison des clercs - the decline of writing and the arts into a squalid celebration of all the most cloacal elements of human existence.
- Despite the outcry from teachers now, there has been a trahison des clercs.
- Yet, amid all the sound and fury, the most contemptible phenomenon is the trahison des clercs.
- There has certainly been a trahison des clercs.
- Half the contributors to this book are British or British colonials, and all of them have the same grim story to tell - the story, in a nutshell, of le trahison des clercs.
Synonyms disloyalty, treachery, perfidy, perfidiousness, bad faith, faithlessness, falseness
OriginFrench, literally ‘treason of the scholars’, the title of a book by Julien Benda (1927). |